Software Engineer, Otter.ai
Data Infrastructure
$155-185k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI notetaker, transcription & insights
Open for applications
AI notetaker, transcription & insights
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$155-185k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create smarter tools that free people up to do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- If you're excited about building the backbone of a data-driven organization and thrive in a space where engineering excellence meets real-world impact, we'd love to talk
- Has a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Has 4+ years engineering experience (2+ years in data infrastructure)
- Has strong programming skills, preferably in Python or Java
- Has expertise with cloud data lakes such as Snowflake or Databricks
- Has experience with streaming and big data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Spark)
- Is experienced with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
- Has implemented CDC solutions (e.g., Debezium, Maxwell)
- Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Desirable
- Exposure to data governance, PII handling, or policy-driven access control — e.g., RBAC at scale, SQL-level data masking, or policy compiler / lineage systems
What the job involves
- In this role, you'll design and develop the foundational systems that power the flow of data across the company, enabling fast insights and smarter decisions as we grow. Our mission is to create a platform that turns raw information into actionable intelligence — efficiently, reliably, and at scale
- Design and build resilient systems for real-time data movement, processing, and storage
- Scale data infrastructure to support our rapidly growing business needs
- Unlock actionable insights by enabling seamless, governed access to high-quality, trustworthy data
- Drive innovation in data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across the company
- Establish best practices that balance performance, flexibility, and governance at scale
Our take
Otter specifically thought of business professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. The company's technology integrates with platforms like Zoom, providing a way to record meetings and convert speech to text in real-time. It then streamlines communications for smarter, more collaborative, and more productive meetings—the first use of conversational AI to turn meetings into an actionable workflow.
This allows people to benefit from captioning, as well as teams to have a written record of the conversation, which can be edited and shared. Its AI can also highlight and comment on important sections of a meeting transcript, and automatically tag action items. In addition to businesses, students and universities – including UCLA, Tulane, and Western Kentucky – use the tool to increase accessibility.
The platform is used in more than 230 countries and has transcribed over 100 million meetings. Otter is far from alone in the audio transcription market, estimated to be worth nearly $41.89 billion by 2030, with Google’s free transcription tool posing a potential threat, as well as competitors such as Rev.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$10m
CONVERTIBLE
Feb 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73m
Company benefits
- Compensation: With highly competitive salaries and equity option packages, everyone's an owner here.
- Hybrid Working: You can mix and match working from our Mountain View or San Francisco office, plus a couple days from home.
- Social Gatherings: Quarterly gatherings in the Bay Area for some team real fun and authentic connection.
- Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and wellness benefits that start the first day you do.
- PTO: Start with a minimum of 15 days of paid time off, plus up to 18 weeks for maternity leave and 8 weeks for paternity leave.
- 401(k): Plans to help meet your retirement goals because we care about your future.
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Sam Liang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Earned a PhD from Stanford and then joined Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer. Worked as a Tech Lead at Google and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Yun Fu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke. Worked as Yahoo's Principal Software Engineer and was Head of Infrastructure at Particle Media.
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